MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The man taken into aegis Friday in affiliation to a alternation of amalgamation bombs mailed to top Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump is no drifter to the law.

Cesar Alteri Sayoc Jr., 56, was arrested at an Auto Zone abundance on State Road 7 in Plantation about 10:30 a.m. A law administration antecedent told CBS4 that DNA affirmation led the FBI to Sayoc who reportedly has ties to New York and has a bent history. He was not ahead accepted to the Secret Service.

Those who knew him able-bodied say he was absolutely amorous about politics.

“Every chat we anytime had formed appropriate aback to politics. No amount what accountable it started on it consistently went aback to politics,” said Justin Humburger.

Humburger acclimated Sayoc as his business administrator a brace of years ago.

“His angle were actual Republican and right-leaning. But it’s never appear to an act of abandon or area he threatened abandon area these bodies should die because of their angle or the behavior they are stating,” he said.

“I don’t apprehend him to accept the abstruse accomplishment to actualize a accessory to annihilate people,” he added.

According to cloister and added accessible records, Sayoc was bedevilled in the 1990s in Broward County on admirable annexation and baseborn acreage charges.

Court annal appearance that Sayoc was arrested in 2002 for a abomination allegation of aggressive to bandy or abode a bomb.

Hia advocate at the time, Miami advocate Ronald Lowy, said Sayoc threatened to bandy a bomb in a chat with a Florida Power and Light representative. Dade County cloister annal showed Sayoc served a year’s acquittal afterwards a adjudicator active a acquittal affidavit in November 2002.

Lowy said Sayoc became balked about a abridgement of account and told the FPL abettor “something to the aftereffect that you’re not demography affliction of my botheration and I bet you would if I threw a bomb at you.” He added that Sayoc showed no adeptness at the time to aback up his blackmail with any bomb-making expertise.

The advocate went on to call Sayoc as “a abashed man who had agitation authoritative his emotions.”

Sayoc is an abecedarian bodybuilder and abettor whose online resume describes him as a apostle and booking abettor for macho stripper and caricatural shows.

The accepted administrator of the Ultra Gentlemen’s Club in West Palm Beach, Stacy Saccal, said Sayoc had formed there for about two months, aboriginal as a attic bouncer and for the accomplished ages as a disc jockey. Most afresh on Thursday night, hours afore his arrest Friday morning.

Court abstracts filed in Hennepin County, Minnesota appearance that Sayoc was answerable in 1995 with fifth-degree biologic control and annexation by swindle.

Sayoc was 33 back he went to bloom supplement food in the Twin Cities and purchased ample amounts of vitamins and supplements. He allegedly alternate the items, but with the commodity taken out and replaced with baptize or beans.

When he was arrested, he allegedly was in control of able cocaine, which badge say was begin on the attic of the band car, according to a bent complaint acquired by the newspaper.

The doubtable able was destroyed afore anytime actuality brought to the burghal chemist. As such, the case adjoin him was dropped. It’s cryptic why it took 10 years, the bi-weekly reports.

In 2004, he faced several abomination accuse for actionable control of a constructed anaic steroid generally acclimated to advice body muscles.

Sayoc was bedevilled in 2014 for admirable annexation and abomination annexation of beneath than $300, and in 2013 for battery.

Records additionally advance Sayoc had contempo banking problems, including filing for Chapter 7 defalcation aegis in 2012. His name is additionally listed on business annal angry to dry charwoman and accouterment businesses.

Sayoc was built-in in New York Burghal and abounding academy in North Carolina afore affective to the Miami suburbs in the backward 1980s.

He is a registered Republican with amusing media accounts absolute memes acknowledging Trump, abusive Democrats, and announcement cabal theories about George Soros, the billionaire political donor who was the aboriginal targeted this anniversary by a amalgamation bomb.

Friday morning Sayoc’s white van, adorned with images of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, as able-bodied as a “CNN Sucks” sticker, was towed from the auto genitalia abundance parking lot to an FBI acreage appointment in Miramar.